Please consider joining us for the following seminar stream at the ACLA 

meeting in New Orleans April 1-4 2010:





The Culture Industry Reconfigured



* Seminar Organizer: David Jenemann, U of Vermont; Gauti Sigthorsson, U 

of Greenwich



In a recent essay, Antonio Negri writes that “Adorno’s model of cultural 

criticism genuinely uncovered the ontology of [modernity],” but that in 

post-modernity this model has “exhausted itself.” This panel seeks to 

explore the contours of the culture industry/industries under 

reconfigured relations of production, postmodern aesthetics and 

biopolitical regimes. Is there still a coherent form of the “culture 

industry” adequately captured by Adorno and Horkheimer’s formulation? Is 

it time to regard culture industries as plural and dispersed, more 

appropriately analyzed at the level of the body, habits, social 

networks, and interactions mediated by databases? How do the movements 

of information and peoples re-energize/hybridize the critique of 

culture? We seek contributions on both the general theme as well as on 

specific examples. Topics might include:



* Mass media (and their “masses”)

* Granular, individualized media forms: Social networks, games, mobile 

media and software

* Voting as consumption; polling as market research

* Spaces of cultural production

* “Diasporic” culture industries

* Creative and cultural industries policy

* Intellectual property and forms of circulation

* Political discourse as entertainment (Glenn Beck, etc.)



Interested participants should submit their abstracts directly to 

acla.org. The deadline for abstracts is November 13, 2009. Please 

contact David Jenemann ([log in to unmask]) with any questions.



----

Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the

University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu